Irish Dadgad Guitar Book

By Sarah McQuaid

(Music Sales America). Discover the quintessential Irish tonalities and harmonies of the DADGAD tuning system, and how to apply the tuning to all your solo and session playing. This comprehensive book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0058UJO3G
• ISBN13: 9780946005932
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Music Sales
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 11.9"

Customer Reviews

Alternate tunings or Irish music fans.

This book went deep into Irish music played in DADGAD tuning on guitar. Songs are in tab with chords above. It teaches about music theory, and chord shapes for DADGAD. I ordered the cd from the company that made the book also, to hear all the tunes. This book is a must have for anyone into Irish music for guitar or just wanting to expand there guitar playing into alternate tunings.

A Must-Have

I have played guitar for 16 years, and only recently have begun to explore alternate tunings and especially Irish music. I found the book very informative concerning the structure of, and backing Irish music. There are several pages of general music/guitar info that could be helpful for beginners. There is a discography as well, but several other books offer more in-depth lists (as the author aknowledges). As for the tunes themselves, they are well organized, and consist of jigs (most abundant) , reels, hornpipes, polkas and seven other tunes of different types. All of them are written in standard notation, and tablature. I am happy with the investment, but for some reason I thought I would get a cassette with the book - I did not.... Have fun.

highly recomended

My guitar teacher is a veteran of sessiuns and recording and highly recomended this book as a primer for learning trad music. I read it and it covers theory deeply as well as practical learning methods